The “People’s Jails”. The Kidnappings of the Argentine Armed Left (1970-1977)

Abstract

The article focuses on the study of extortive kidnappings carried out by Argentine armed revolutionary organizations. Starting from a set of 65 cases, product of an original survey included as Annex, reconstructs the most emblematic kidnappings and analyzes the crisscrossing of senses involved in this practice of the so called “revolutionary justice”.